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  • Hang With The Locals | RO Exploe

    Hang With The Locals | RO Exploe

     Being able to go to Japan as many times as I have has been such a blessing. Shout out to my wife Julia for letting me go and taking care of things at home for me. Going to Japan is such a normal occurrence for me that I know how to get around Tokyo without Google maps now and I’m not afraid of not having internet. 

    This is the photo that everyone takes to prove that they travel.

    First things first, we went to Tsukiji fish market to try eat some fresh raw fish. Even though this is a photo of strawberries.

    Grilled scallops and uni! Delicious.

    Fresh fish for sale everywhere.

    Me and Kevin got a maguro bowl for lunch and it was so good!

    So simple, yet so good.

    We also stopped by Odaiba mall for some yakisoba noodles. Watching Kevin use chop sticks was funny until he started using it better than me.

    I realized I paid for noodles, cabbage, bean sprouts and an egg.

    This mall has some levels to this shit.

    What most people come here for..

    This might be the last time I see the life size Gundam since it’s going to be moved this year.

    We met up with Ryo and the creator of the “lowcool” phrase Shingo.

    Shingo drives a lowcool Legacy that you might have seen me post about on a previous trip to Japan.

    Ryo was driving a customer’s IS that was rocking the Lexon wide body and on Work wheels.

     

    Thanks for dinner Shingo! You are so lowcool.

    -NGUMINH

     

  • Beanie Shoots | HOODRATstuff with Becky

    Beanie Shoots | HOODRATstuff with Becky

    It’s never a dull moment when we’re out and about even when it’s just for an ice cream run. Becky tagged along with us and even though she think she’s not model material we thought it would be cool to shoot her in the alley of down town Orange.

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    We haven’t really brought our cars out to play lately, so it was cool to have a car to shoot in this area.

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    This would be our background for the night.

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    Becky trying to break out of her robot personality.

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     She said she was internally screaming every time I asked her to get in front of the camera.

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     I think she did pretty well even with a crowd of people watching us shoot her.

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    The HOODRATstuff version 2 beanie.
    Available: http://shop.royal-origin.com/product-p/hrs-beanie2.htm

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    Best facial expression.

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    Becky also rocking the OO hoodie.
    Available: http://shop.royal-origin.com/product-p/oo-hoodie.htm

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    Vu with that BTS.

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     The tones in this photo. So good…

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    On the way here we saw this cool market with a nice big green neon sign and thought it would be a sick place to shoot for some profile photos.

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    Praying to base god.

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    Shavi the green doctor.

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    Meet me at the south side market girl.

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    Some car photos since I haven’t been providing much of this content lately.

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    Every late night adventure should end at the fast food drive thru.

  • The Night is Right

    The Night is Right

    The night is always well spent when you’re doing something that you love. On this night, we were up finishing up the final touches of Abbitt’s Legacy and doing some #hoodratstuff of course.

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    Test fitting the NUE’s.  This only lasted a week.

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    Abbitt told us fender rollers are for pussies. Real men use their fingers.

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    All over the shop was Brandon’s engine all laid out for the rebuild. Labeled and everything.

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    More engine stuff.

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    Nimo taking off his wing because he didn’t feel like flying tonight.

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    Abbitt’s roll call.

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    I just remember us laughing about poppin’ mollies.

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    Went down the street to get some donuts because we love high calorie edibles.

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    Pretty colors.

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    Diabetes.

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    For an Asian-run donut shop, they make pretty bomb breakfast burritos.

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    Jimmy semi-impressed.

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    This photo is only funny for the people who were there.

    – NIGHT ASS

    minh

     

     

     

  • Unlimited Auto Craft

    Unlimited Auto Craft

      The new kick it spot has been at Brandon’s new shop, Unlimited Auto Craft in Huntington Beach. We’ve been doing late night work, installing air, fixing suspension, eating Banh Mi, and getting drunk a lot here. Here are some of the latest projects we’ve been doing inside of Brandon’s shop.

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     First night kicking it here, we were working on Derek’s air suspension.

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    Abbitt doing work on the Booshma. Maxing out that camber!

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    All the way up.

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    All the way down.

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    The Booshma laid out.

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    Aired all the way up, still lower than most rides.

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    Abbitt getting an orgasm off of the Booshma.

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    Brandon’s drift Subie.

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    Chris showing off his cooking skills to Derek.

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    Booshma in the static days. Pretty much looks the same as he does now, just a lil bit lower. Still riding slammed.

    minh

     -NGU ASS

     

     

  • Formula Drift: Long Beach 2012

    Formula Drift: Long Beach 2012

    Finally, the Formula Drift season was here! I was getting bored of going to car meets and shows, seeing the same thing over and over. I really wanted to do some motor sports kind of photography. This year, there were many new sights at FD, such as the Scion FRS that Ken Gushi drove, and Daigo Saito from D1GP competed and brought his Lexus SC430 mated with 3.4 liter Brian Crower stroker 2JZ-GTE. There was an in-car video on youtube of Daigo driving it on practice day and it sounded insane. Got me super excited to witness the monster in action. As soon as I arrived at the parking structure, I could smell the burning rubber and hear the screech of tires drifting. It got me giddier than a high school girl who just got  asked to the prom.

    Saw the Megan-racing AE86 on the way to the entrance.

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